tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686367864250239822.post5340340575615906387..comments2018-04-22T14:48:34.661+01:00Comments on Jerub-Baal's Spleen Vent: Are You Part of the 46.4%?Tomrathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15442487511149915434noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686367864250239822.post-5967281252991436392009-07-04T23:31:41.313+01:002009-07-04T23:31:41.313+01:00"Do you mean that labour voters intended to b...<i>"Do you mean that labour voters intended to bring this country to its knees or that labour did? Both of these are clearly false."</i><br /><br />I mean (and, mea culpa, it is entirely down to a quirk of my use of the written english language, i.e. badly) that 1 in 4 people have empowered Labour to their current position of looters-in-chief; their actions have led to this country being brought to its knees; intentionally or not is up to the conspiracy theorists of which I am not.<br /><br /><i><b>'Their primary job is not to create laws (bad or good) but to uphold just ones instead'</b><br /><br />No it isn't, that's for the judiciary surely.</i><br /><br />No; the job of the judiciary is to uphold <i>all laws</i> irrespective of whether we deem them to be unfair - when we see an unjust law we must put people in parliament to change those laws; judicial activism is perhaps the most obvious symptom of our loss of sovereignty as a nation - judges are able to make the rules up as they please in favour of international rules over national ones - whether the rule is right or wrong is not important; they are merely the arbiters of it, not its commanders.Tomrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15442487511149915434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3686367864250239822.post-22027304338818194332009-07-04T11:17:16.510+01:002009-07-04T11:17:16.510+01:00'One in 4 people have empowered the Labour par...'One in 4 people have empowered the Labour party to bring this country to its knees intentionally!'<br /><br />Do you mean that labour voters intended to bring this country to its knees or that labour did? Both of these are clearly false. <br /><br />'Their primary job is not to create laws (bad or good) but to uphold just ones instead'<br /><br />No it isn't, that's for the judiciary surely.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879966861207648209noreply@blogger.com